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Bancroft Capital Expands Its Services With GEOIntelligence Group

Posted: August 7, 2023

Bancroft Capital, a certified Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) specializing in Institutional Brokerage and Capital Markets services, announced the expansion of its client services with the addition of the Bancroft Capital GEOIntelligence Group.

Maj. Gen. (retired) Ferdinand B. Stoss will  lead the Bancroft Capital GEOIntelligence Group in providing analysis, assessments, and reporting on international threats of interest.

Led by Maj. Gen. (retired) Ferdinand (Fred) B. Stoss – who recently retired from a distinguished 34 years of service in the U.S. Air Force – Bancroft Capital’s GEOIntelligence Group will inform clients on long-term and evolving strategic problems, regional flashpoint issues, as well as topical challenges, such as cyber, space, nuclear weapons, and terrorism.

Representatives of Bancroft have served as U.S. military service men and women throughout much of the world, engaged in military action against those who would threaten the normal and peaceful course of international relations,” said CEO Cauldon Quinn. “At Bancroft, we look to offer our unique perspective to inform our civilian counterparties on geopolitical threats which have a likelihood of impacting economies and markets throughout the world.”

Geopolitical Intelligence (J-2) Commentary will be delivered in the form of timely, event-driven Executive Summary Reports and more detailed recurring white papers. Representatives of the GEOIntelligence Group will make themselves available to offer additional commentary to clients as requested and as circumstances warrant.

“We are in a new and dangerous strategic security environment,” said Maj. Gen.(retired) Stoss.  “For the first time, the United States faces not one, but two, Great Powers that are nuclear peers: Russia as the acute threat and China as the long-term ‘pacing’ challenge – with both contesting international order and stability.

“As if that is not enough, there are many other hot spots, like North Korea, a dangerous regional actor; Iran, the world’s largest sponsor of terrorism with clear nuclear weapon ambitions; and unfortunately, countless other geo-political trials.”

Maj. Gen. Stoss continued, “Appropriately, our initial newsletter will focus on Great Power competition, with subsequent reports highlighting global, regional, and topical issues – all derived from the Bancroft GEOIntelligence Group prism of hundreds of years of combined senior military experience and expertise. I am humbled by this Group’s retired senior military leaders’ integrity, credibility, and decades of selfless service to our nation. As fellow disabled veterans, we are excited to join Bancroft Capital and to share our insights with clients.”

Prior to his retirement in 2022, Maj. Gen. Stoss was the Director of Plans and Policy (J-5), the head strategist for U.S. Strategic Command, an organization comprised of over 130,000 military members. He led development of the approaches for strategic deterrence, nuclear operations, global strike operations, and missile defense. His directorate built and maintained Department of Defense nuclear war contingency plans and provided strategic support for theater combatant commanders. He also supported force postures, arms control policies, and was the lead integrator of strategic deterrence activities with allies and partners.

Prior to his U.S. Strategic Command duties, he was the Commander of Twentieth Air Force, where he led over 12,000 personnel, to include the nation’s land-based nuclear deterrent force. Stoss holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from Kansas State University, a master’s degree in national security and defense studies from the College of Naval Command and Staff, a master’s degree in aerospace operations from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, as well as a master’s degree in history from University of Nebraska at Omaha. He was a Fellow at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where he studied the nuclear fuel cycle. Fred also attended many other fellowships, including the Darden School of Business at University of Virginia, John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and the Maxwell School at Syracuse University.

Bancroft Capital was co-founded in 2017 by Cauldon Quinn, a disabled Navy veteran. His vision was to build a company with a strong commitment to service: service to clients, country, and veterans. Bancroft places financial industry veterans alongside military veterans to deliver value-added content to its clients; and strives to offer best-in-class service to its institutional clients across an array of financial services. Bancroft rises above the competition on the merit of value-added content and leadership derived from industry veterans with 40-plus years of industry pedigree.

Committed to offering meaningful training and employment to service-disabled veterans, Bancroft Capital launched its signature Veteran Training Program (VTP) in 2019. Bancroft funnels profits, earned through its hard work and extensive knowledge, into the VTP, which puts disabled veterans in a position to develop a skill set capable of supporting a new career as Institutional Traders and Investment Bankers. Bancroft is dedicated to helping restore disabled veterans to their rightful place as leaders in our society and communities, but first and foremost as providers for their own families.

Bancroft aims to offer paid opportunities to up to four VTP candidates each year. Candidate training includes a rotation among the five business units Bancroft operates and an introduction to back office and operations functions, sales trading and compliance while participating in the VTP.

For more information about the Bancroft GEOIntelligence Group, please visit https://www.bancroft4vets.com/geointelligence/.